Where Does The Food Wars Anime End In The Manga?

I like food anime. I don’t need it to have any special hook. I don’t even need it to be educational about food, I just like watching characters be happy eating and I can hunt the recipes down myself some other time. However, create an occasionally ecchi food anime that turned cooking into a competitive shounen action story AND used real recipes and cooking techniques while doing so? Well, that is perfection.

Where To Start The Food Wars Manga After The Anime?

If you finished the Food Wars anime and want to continue the story in the manga, you can start at:

• If you finished Food Wars Season 1 – You can start the manga at Volume 8, Chapter 61
• If you finished Food Wars Season 2 – You can start the manga at Volume 14, Chapter 118 (Chapter 120 if you watched the Tootsuki Elite Ten OVA)
• If you finished Food Wars Season 3 – You can start the manga at Volume 26, Chapter 218
• If you finished Food Wars Season 4 – You can start the manga at Volume 31, Chapter 265
• If you finished Food Wars Season 5 – The anime adapts to Volume 36, Chapter 315, where the manga ends.

Past the end of the Food Wars base manga, you can also read a very short, 3-chapter sequel manga called Food Wars ~ Le Dessert, if you’d like. If you are reading physical copies of the manga, this is included in the final volume.

The Food Wars OVA are a mix of anime-original cute stories and actual manga content.

• Takumi’s Downtown Battle (OVA 1, Season 1) is anime-original
• Erina’s Summer Vacation (OVA 2, Season 1) adapts manga bonus chapters not related to the main story.
• Autumn Moon’s Chance Encounter (OVA 3, Season 2) is anime-original
• Toosuki’s Elite Ten (OVA 4, Season 2) adapts Chapter 119 of the manga
• Erina at Polar Star Dormitory (OVA 5, Season 3) is anime-original

What to Expect From The Food Wars Manga?

The Food Wars anime was pretty good until about near the end, Season 5, when the anime (or rather, the studio) really seemed like it just wanted to get through the story and be done.

While there were a few skipped chapters prior to Season 5, but the fifth season really picked up the pace as well as skipped quite a bit of content from that ending arc. The anime also changed the ending of the story slightly, but not really in a way that changed the overall result.

If you enjoyed Food Wars, there is definitely some merit to reading the manga after where Season 4 of the anime ended, but at the same time, the final two arcs are not really considered the strongest of the series either.

I do particularly recommend reading Chapter 264 to Chapter 276, the Hot Springs Investigation arc that was super condensed and tacked on in the credits of the final episode of Season 4. It’s not particularly plot-important, but it was still a fun read and skipped in the anime, for the most part.

Is The Food Wars Manga Over?

The Food Wars manga is complete. It ended in 2019 with Volume 36, Chapter 315.

You can also read the spin-off manga, Food Wars: Etoile, that follows Chef Shinomiya in his career after Tootsuki and during the events of the training camp. Food Wars: Etoile is complete. It ended in 2019 with Chapter 50.

You can also read the (complete, 3 novel) Food Wars A la Carte light novel featuring stories about various characters and the (complete, 1 novel) Food Wars Fratelli Aldini light novel about the Aldini brothers.

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